OF PART THE SECOND. vii 
many varieties of relation and of representation. 
The journey of Orestes is denoted by the symbol 
of the staff which he bears in his left hand : and 
the curious circumstance of the cJiaplet, as con- 
nected with sepulchral vows, will not be viewed 
without interest*, by persons who have noticed 
the frequent examples of resemblance between 
antient and modern customs ; as it clearly 
proves, that the chaplets suspended in the hands 
of angels upon the old monuments of our 
churches had their origin, like many other of 
our religious customs, in Heathen superstitions 
and ceremonies*. 
Another circumstance discovered by the 
paintings upon those vases is too important to be 
omitted in a work which professes to treat of 
the antiquities of Greece. The origin not only 
of the Ionic volute in architecture, but of the 
symbol denoting water, as it has been figured by 
Grecian sculptors in their marble friezes and 
(4) See the- Frontispiece. 
(5) Such as the ornamenting of our churches with ivy and holli/ at 
Christmas, &c. &c. Vide Gregor. Naxianz. Orat. de Vita Greg. Thauma- 
turg. foTTi, III. p. ST A- 
